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rnant foon becomes perceptible; the fluids are 

 too thick, fluggifh, and heavy, for their diftind 

 appropriations ; the lungs are firfl: overloaded, 

 a languor follov^s, to that a difficulty of 

 breathing or (hort cough fucceeds; and, laftly, 

 the grand effort of nature dilplays itfeU' ia 

 the difeafe before us: and that ismoftjudi- 

 cioufly made in the glandular parts, where (he 

 is nearly adequate to her own work. 



This rational progrefs of the morbid matter 

 has ever affeded me fo forcibly with the idea 

 of convidion, that nothing but a judicious, 

 clear, and comprehenfive elucidation, (divefted 

 of furmifes and conjedures) demonftrating an 

 oppofite caufe, can never reconcile me to ajiotker 

 opipion. I appeal, without lubterfuge or am- 

 biguity, to the profeflional and enlightened 

 reader, whether this is not the regular procefs ; 

 if this lurking vifcidity, this glutinous impu- 

 rity, is not rouftd from its latent communi- 

 cation with the juices, and called into adion 

 by bringing the frame into fudden exertions 

 and conftant exercife, loaded (in circulation) 

 with the weight that has been fo long accu- 

 mulating without interruption, from either 

 purgatives, diuretics, or even perfpiration ? if 



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